{"id":3823,"date":"2006-06-01T09:33:15","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T16:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/06\/01\/random-bits\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T10:24:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T18:24:20","slug":"random-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/06\/01\/random-bits\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Bits&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The Ick has been beaten into submission, and I once again feel normal&#8230;or at least as normal as I tend to get.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>I just saw the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Simpsons\" title=\"Wikipedia: The Simpsons\">Simpsons<\/a> episode (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deep_Space_Homer\" title=\"Wikipedia: Deep Space Homer\">Deep Space Homer<\/a>&#8220;) responsible for coining the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Overlord_meme\" title=\"Wikipedia: Overlord Meme\">&#8230;and I, for one, welcome our new (FILL IN THE BLANK) overlords,<\/a>&#8221; catchphrase.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aside from the occasional random episode while at friends&#8217; houses, I&#8217;ve never actually seen The Simpsons. Therefore, Prairie and I have been picking up the season sets on DVD from time to time. We&#8217;re up to season five, and all these episodes have been brand new to me. It&#8217;s been a lot of fun discovering the source of various catchwords and phrases that I&#8217;ve known for years after they seeped into the general public consciousness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>I now own a white dress shirt, black bow tie, and black suit jacket. These will be worn tonight along with my <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.utilikilts.com\/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&amp;Category=35\" title=\"Utilikilts: The Mocker\">mocker<\/a> kilt and 14-eye Doc Marten boots while I&#8217;m photographing NSCC&#8217;s Career Link Academy Prom. I only wish the long-lost Tuxedo Utilikilt (seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiltmen.com\/links.htm\" title=\"Links for Bravehearts\">here<\/a> being worn by Dick Clark) would re-appear, as has been rumored for quite some time now. Still, the black Mocker will work for tonight.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Prairie will be heading down to see her sister graduate with her Master&#8217;s Degree from college this weekend. My work schedule, unfortunately, prevented me from going along. However, both Prairie and I will be at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonwebley.com\/\" title=\"Jason Webley\">Jason Webley<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/upcoming.org\/event\/76446\/\" title=\"Upcoming: Jason Webley: 'Eleven Saints' EP\/CD Release Party!\">Eleven Saints<\/a> release party on Friday night, and I&#8217;ll be at <a href=\"http:\/\/upcoming.org\/event\/76447\/\" title=\"Upcoming: Jason Webley: Camp Tomato 2006\">Camp Tomato<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A couple weeks ago, fellow Tomato Scout Laura Mulinski was kind enough to send me a package of bootleg Webley recordings to be added to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelhanscom.com\/tomatoscouts\/\" title=\"Jason Webley Bootlegs\">Jason Webley Bootlegs<\/a> page. What I didn&#8217;t realize when she first asked me if I wanted these was <em>how many<\/em> she had to send, so I was quite surprised (though very happily so) to open the envelope to find 22 CDs that encompassed eleven shows recorded during 2005. I will eventually get all of these shows encoded to .mp3, tagged, and posted on the bootlegs page, but I haven&#8217;t even had a chance to get started on them yet&#8230;this will probably be a summertime project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp; offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" title=\"Get iTunes\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id= xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" alt=\"\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp; offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms %253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa %252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253F artistTerm%253DI Musici%2526songTerm=Brandenburg Concerto #6 in B flat - Allegro%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Brandenburg Concerto #6 in B flat - Allegro' on the iTMS\">Brandenburg Concerto #6 in B flat &#8211; Allegro<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/ stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid= 1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252F MZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252Fadvanced SearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DI Musici%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'I Musici' on the iTMS\">I Musici<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click. linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type= 3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple. com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search. DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DI Musici%2526 albumTerm=Bach for Book Lovers%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Bach for Book Lovers' on the iTMS\">Bach for Book Lovers<\/a> <\/em> (1997, 6:01).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m healthy, the Simpsons are funny, I have dress clothes for prom, and there will be lots of Jason Webley goodness in the upcoming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2043],"tags":[13,80,27,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}